Contact Engineer

We’re hiring a Contact Engineer at our Fort Hills site to support plant performance, troubleshoot process issues, and drive optimization in our operations. If you’re an Engineer with operating plant experience and strong process engineering expertise, we want to hear from you!

What we offer:

We recognize your contribution and offer a range of rewards and development opportunities designed to support your success. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Suncor and the region where you work.

• Strong compensation: we offer competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards. We also help you save for your future by offering pension programs, and savings plans with company matching

• Benefits: utilize an employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family to support your mental, physical, and financial well-being

• Generous time-off: enjoy generous paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance

• Talent development programs: Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs are just a few ways we’re dedicated to your development

• Relocation assistance: We provide support with lease cancellation or home sale, temporary accommodations, rental home search, moving and storage costs, spousal assistance and more

Minimum Requirements:

• Five years of experience as a Chemical/Process Engineer supporting an operating plant in heavy oil or refining

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering

• Registered as a Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

• Familiar with P&ID's, process flow diagrams, and other process related documentation

• Experience facilitating risk assessment, and participating in hazard and operability studies (HAZOP)

• Knowledge of fluid hydraulic calculations, HYSYS and computer-based hydraulic packages 

• Experience in Paraffinic Froth Treatment is an asset

• Possess a valid driver’s license and a clean driving record

Don’t have all the qualifications listed? That’s ok! Apply anyway. We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills.

Responsibilities: 

• Support expense projects and process changes, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide support to ensure that operational targets are met, required corrective actions are communicated and perform effective follow ups

• Perform technical investigations and root cause analysis and provide technical feedback and recommendations to return the plant to normal operation after upsets

• Facilitate risk assessments and provide technical support for risk reviews

• Perform required studies, problem definitions, and calculations for plant optimization

• Develop tools to improve both process and equipment monitoring and performance projection

• Perform calculations to evaluate process conditions, production losses, emissions, spills and chemical forecasts

• Perform walk downs, field verifications, as built mark ups, and in-field tasks as required

• Provide technical support for tasks such as regulatory reporting, operational procedure reviews, management of change (MOC) execution, bottleneck identification and plant turnarounds

• Handle development and maintenance of process engineering documents and tools such as; piping and instrumentation diagrams ((P&ID), specs and targets, safe operating limits, and heat and material balance

• Collaborate and communicate with the Calgary based team, cross shift, and Fort Hills stakeholders to ensure success of the FIFO operating model

Location and Other Key Details: 

• You will work out of our camp-based Fort Hills mining site, located in Alberta’s Athabasca region, 90 kilometers' north of Fort McMurray, Alberta

• This is a Fly-in/Fly-out (FIFO) camp-based position; you will FIFO

  (Fly-in Fly-out) from Calgary or Edmonton, or BIBO (Bus-in-Bus-out) for Fort McMurray residents

• The shift schedule is a 7 days on / 7 days off rotation ; 12 hour shifts

• This position is safety sensitive